French Warships Reach United States After Atlantic Crossing
The 35000 ton Richelieu and 7600 ton Montcalm arrived in New York and Philadelphia after a perilous voyage from Dakar with destroyers La Fantasque and Le Terrible. French officers voiced determination to rejoin the war against the Axis, while U.S. Navy escorts safeguarded the mission amid submarine threats and heavy seas.
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Joseph Morton
New York
Richelieu
New York Harbor
Philadelphia
la Fantasque
le Terrible
Dakar
W. B. Raymond A. Fenard
United States
Giraud
United Nations
Africa
Germany
Italy
Axis Tank Battle Endangers Gafsa Garrison in Tunisia
In southern Tunisia on February 15 Allied planes and Rommel aided push threaten the American and French garrison at Gafsa. A fierce plateau clash near Faid pass and Sbeitla saw American armor clash with a Nazi panzer division, including reinforcements and new German tanks. Dive bombers were employed repeatedly.
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Tunisia
Faid Pass
Sbeitla
Gafsa
Rommel
Allied forces repelled with 50 German tanks near Faid pass
Allied headquarters in North Africa report a German breakthrough west of the Pass, threatening Gafsa 60 miles southwest. German columns moved from Faid toward Sheitla and north of Sened, while U.S. air power bombed troop concentrations. American troops at Sidi Bouzid suffered heavy losses and withdrew southwest.
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North Africa
Marshal Rommel
Pass
U. S
Gafsa
Faid Pass
Allied
Faid
Reuters
London
Sheitla
Sened
Gafsa-Sidi Bouzid
12Th
U. S. Air Force
United States
Sidi Bouzid
Jurgen
Tunisia
Eight Arizona Soldiers Wounded in Southwest Pacific
Washington reports eight Arizonans among Army personnel wounded in the Southwest Pacific since early November. The War Department lists 519 names, with several classified as missing or later returned to duty. Named Arizonans include Jesus S. Lechuga, Albertus A. Massey, Eugene D. Needham, Howard C. Purtyman, Alberto C. Quihuis, Vernon H. Reeves, Jack Smith, and Jimmie Yazzie among others and their family connections in Phoenix Duncan Gilbert Sedona Tucson Dillon.
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Washington
Southwest Pacific
Jesus S. Lechuga
Regina S. Lechuga
Phoenix
Albertus A. Massey
Mary
Massey
Duncan
Eugene D. Needham
Emma Needham
Gilbert
Howard C. Purtyman
Emery Purtyman
Sedona
Alberto C. Quihuis
Manuela Quihuis
S. Meyer Street
Tucson
Vernon H. Reeves
Liis L. Fehrenkamp
S. Fourth Avenue
Tuck
Jack Smith
Fall Of Kharkov Is Expected Hourly As Reds Sweep On
The Navy reported 15 Japanese planes destroyed and one cargo ship hit in Aleutian and Solomon Island air actions costing two American bombers and six fighters. Feb 13–14 operations near Kiska and Munda involved Liberator B-24s, B-25s, P-38 escorts, Dauntless dive bombers, TBF Avengers, P-39s, and F4F Wildcats. Russian forces breach Kharkov defense lines after hours of fighting, per London Reuters.
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Norman Bell
U. S
South Pacific
United States Pacific
Guadalcanal
Britain
Shortland
Navy Department
Solomons
Washington
Navy
Aleutian
Solomon Islands
North Pacific
Kiska
United States
Aleutians
Dauntless
Douglas
Airacobra
Munda
New
Moscow
U.P
Kharkov
Red Army
London
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Ukraine
Dnieper
Rostov
Don
Voroshilovgrad
Donets
Rogan
Zolochev
Record Cold Wave Sweeps East States
New England and the mid dle Atlantic states faced a record cold wave with subzero temperatures. Watertown New York recorded 35 below. other towns reported extreme lows as the cold snap pressed onward.
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New England
Middle Atlantic
Watertown
N. Y
Ogdensburg
Warrensburg
Liberal Arts Status Denied Two Colleges
Arizona senate defeats a bill to grant liberal arts status to two teachers colleges. The measure is postponed indefinitely amid war-time focus. The vote shows opposition from multiple senators with debate over broader legislation.
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Liberal Arts
Phoenix
Arizona
Senate
House
James Minotto
Maricopa
Moscow doubts Soviet mission heading here
Soviet sources described as doubtful a London report that Marshal Semyon Timoshenko four Russian generals and an admiral have left for Washington to confer with President Roosevelt and Mrs Chiang Kai Shek. The Stockholm dispatch said the party travels via the Middle East Dakar and Brazil.
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Moscow
London
Semyon Timoshenko
Washington
Roosevelt
Chiang
Kai- Shek
Stockholm
London Sunday Dispatch
United States
Middle East
Dakar
Brazil
Record Heat Ties Feb 14 Tucson High
In Tucson yesterday the temperature matched the all time February 14 record at 82 degrees. In Phoenix the thermometer rose to 84, the hottest Valentine’s Day in 48 years of U S weather bureau data, though below the February all time high of 92 set February 25, 1921.
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Tucson
Phoenix
U. S. Weather Bureau
Number Of Farmers At Record Low For Years
The agriculture department reports 8,369,000 persons employed on farms as of Feb 1, the smallest since records began 19 years ago. Family workers total 6,638,000, unchanged from a year earlier, while 1,731,000 hired hands show an eight percent decline. The Jan 1 to Feb 1 rise of 198,000 farm workers is below seasonal expectations.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Senate Rejects Rogers as Arizona Industrial Commissioner
Governor Osborn's nominee C. E. Rogers of Prescott was rejected by the state senate after an executive session. This marked the second refusal of Osborn nominees this session, with C. V. Hill previously declined for a second term as state examiner.
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Phoenix
Osborn
C. E. Rogers
Prescott
Arizona Industrial Commission
State Senate
Senate
C. V. Hill
Paul C. Keefe
Rogers
Arizona war workers frozen to stay on the job
Phoenix reports 55,000 Arizona war workers may not change jobs without permission from the U S Employment Service or the War Manpower Commission. The order freezes workers in their posts, limits quits and discharges, and lists 35 essential war sectors affected. A certificate of availability is required to transfer, with a review process and possible appeals.
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Phoenix
Arizona
U. S. Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
Henry K. Arneson
WMC
Arneson
California
Nevada
Oregon
Washington
Employment Service
LABOR
RAF Bombing Raids Hit Cologne Milan and Spezia
British and American air forces conducted large scale daylight and night raids against Cologne Milan and Spezia. Eleven Allied planes were missing in the operations with heavy damage reported on docks and industrial areas and fires observed in Milan.
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Germany
Italy
Cologne
Milan
Spezia
Concen
RAF
Congress Aims Swift Blow At Fathers Draft
Washington February 15 The house military committee sped action on draft deferments for men with dependents. Chairman May Kentucky scheduled an executive session to study Rep. Kilday Texas bill to base quotas state wide and require boards to call men without dependents before those with wives and children. May criticized the war manpower commission for ignoring congressional intent in drafting without regard to dependency.
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Washington
House Military Committee
May
D-Ky
Rep
Kilday
D-Tex
McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Congress
Victory Seen for Allies in Africa War Front
Edward W. Beattie reports from Allied North African Headquarters that Axis forces in Africa, about 170000 strong with a German majority, face a hard fight as the Allied push nears. He notes Axis morale issues and predicts a costly campaign, likely ending in a last-ditch stand or evacuation.
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Edward W. Beattie
Tunisian
Ethiopia
Czechoslovakia
Poland
France
Africa
United Press
Allied North African Headquarters
U.P
North Africa
Stooge
Adolf Hitler
Argonne Forest
Rule On Dependencies Affects Many In State
Fifty three percent of Arizona draft registrants were deferred due to dependency and will be drafted without regard to dependents under a new ruling by Paul V. McNutt. Office of War Information figures cited by Rep. Patman show 44.54 percent of deferred Arizonans were married with children and 8.81 percent deferred for mental moral or physical reasons. Only 3.23 percent were deferred for occupation. Arizona enlistments accounted for 0.42 percent of the nation, while registrations were 0.40 of the national total.
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Washington
Arizona
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Office of War Information
Congressional
Rep
Patman
Texas
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